The past is always present
Subtitle: the revival of the Byzantine musical tradition at Mount Athos
By: Tore Tvarnø Lind
Series: Europea : ethnomusicologies and modernities -- no. 13
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780810881471; 9780810881488
Subjects: Byzantine Music; Byzantine chants; Orthodox Eastern Church; Church music; History; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : toward an ethnomusicological study of Byzantine chant 1; title: Musical blossom; title: Sacred musical transorthography; title: Producing Mount Athos : Byzantine chant, pilgrimage and tourism; title: "The monks have prayer" : on the Athonite style of chanting; title: Spiritual silence, sacred sound; title: Conclusion; title: Greek glossary; title: Appendix A: Chain of psáltes : musical genealogy at Vatopaidi.